• Re: FREE GAME: Once Upon A Jester

    From Mike S.@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Thu Sep 5 10:07:08 2024
    On Wed, 04 Sep 2024 10:46:03 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson <[email protected]> wrote:

    You've got two days to decide. It's free on GOG until then.

    I did not see this post until the 5th and now it is only 50% off.

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to Justisaur on Fri Sep 6 10:07:31 2024
    On 05/09/2024 19:51, Justisaur wrote:
    On 9/3/2024 11:03 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

    Another day, another freebie. I really was hoping somebody else would
    announce this one though, since I'm not excited about it at all. Oh
    well, beggars can't be choosers


    * Once Upon A Jester
    https://www.gog.com/en/game/once_upon_a_jester
        I admit it; the main reason I dislike this one
        is the art style. It's got a primitive, almost
        surreal style similar to... oh, what's the cartoon
        called? "Adventure Time"; that's it. I really
        dislike it. Sure, it's judging a book by its cover,
        but video games are a visual medium and if the
        visuals are displeasing it's going to have a huge
        effect on my opinion on the rest of the game. Which
        is, apparently, a fairly standard -if charming and
        goofy- point-n-click adventure. I'm sure it's fine;
        it's just not for _me_. Maybe you'll like it more?



    You've got two days to decide. It's free on GOG until then.

    I love Adventure Time, reminds me of my early D&D days.

    I also loved this game too, here's what I had to say about it:

    This is a "Charming" game. I assume it's from an EU country based on the accents, though I can't quite place them. You (easily) try to figure
    out what the locals in a town want a play about, and then put on said
    play with choices during the play and some challenges usually with
    'press the button when the moving line is on the color on the meter'
    games, which I had a lot of trouble with. I turned the difficulty down
    to minimum, better but I still had trouble. I finished it in one day.
    It felt like a college student theater/game project, it was a bit
    bizarre, but fun.

    Since it's free, get it, play it,


    The studio is based in Holland but the accent is quite strange as it
    sounds like it has quite an American twang to it and not instead the
    normal 'Dutch English' I would expect even though the Dutch are rather
    well know for having good English skills.

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  • From Dimensional Traveler@21:1/5 to JAB on Fri Sep 6 07:52:45 2024
    On 9/6/2024 2:07 AM, JAB wrote:
    On 05/09/2024 19:51, Justisaur wrote:
    On 9/3/2024 11:03 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

    Another day, another freebie. I really was hoping somebody else would
    announce this one though, since I'm not excited about it at all. Oh
    well, beggars can't be choosers


    * Once Upon A Jester
    https://www.gog.com/en/game/once_upon_a_jester
        I admit it; the main reason I dislike this one
        is the art style. It's got a primitive, almost
        surreal style similar to... oh, what's the cartoon
        called? "Adventure Time"; that's it. I really
        dislike it. Sure, it's judging a book by its cover,
        but video games are a visual medium and if the
        visuals are displeasing it's going to have a huge
        effect on my opinion on the rest of the game. Which
        is, apparently, a fairly standard -if charming and
        goofy- point-n-click adventure. I'm sure it's fine;
        it's just not for _me_. Maybe you'll like it more?



    You've got two days to decide. It's free on GOG until then.

    I love Adventure Time, reminds me of my early D&D days.

    I also loved this game too, here's what I had to say about it:

    This is a "Charming" game. I assume it's from an EU country based on the
    accents, though I can't quite place them. You (easily) try to figure
    out what the locals in a town want a play about, and then put on said
    play with choices during the play and some challenges usually with
    'press the button when the moving line is on the color on the meter'
    games, which I had a lot of trouble with. I turned the difficulty down
    to minimum, better but I still had trouble. I finished it in one day.
    It felt like a college student theater/game project, it was a bit
    bizarre, but fun.

    Since it's free, get it, play it,


    The studio is based in Holland but the accent is quite strange as it
    sounds like it has quite an American twang to it and not instead the
    normal 'Dutch English' I would expect even though the Dutch are rather
    well know for having good English skills.

    Well, they are a small country just across the Channel from the UK with
    whom they have historically decent relations. :P


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